Four Corners Monument (Socorro, Navajo: price, food, charge) - New Mexico (NM) - City-Data Forum

jim9251 · 10-04-2010, 03:04 PM

Posted this in the Colorado forum, but I thought I would post it here, since this is more New Mexico I think.Took a drive to Four Corners Monument the other day. I thought it was interesting. Not very many people there beside myself, maybe 10 or so, high clouds around 70 degrees, some good reasonably priced Navajo crafts and such, one food vendor, plenty of restrooms and picnic tables. Admission $3.00. This is one of those places I think a person has to visit at least once just to say they've been there.

I've arrived

domino · 10-04-2010, 03:26 PM

Tell the truth Jim, you're just trying to shoff off your car, aren't you? Nice wheels.

jim9251 · 10-04-2010, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by domino

Tell the truth Jim, you're just trying to shoff off your car, aren't you? Nice wheels.

That old thing? Nah.

A few more photos -

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/6594/022ayb.jpg (broken link)

GregW · 10-05-2010, 05:31 AM

Damn. Another place on the list about as far away from Socorro as you can get in NM.

uggabugga · 10-05-2010, 10:55 AM

they charge admission now? i wonder when that started..

here's an old snapshot of my dad [on the left] and two friends at what then passed for a monument in 1956:

ABQalex · 10-07-2010, 06:14 AM

Hasn't it been determined that the Four Corners Monument actually isn't located on the exact spot where the four states meet? I remember it being mentioned on the History Channel's special "How the States Got Their Shapes" a while back, anyway.

songinthewind7 · 10-07-2010, 08:51 AM

I was there a few years ago and they didn't charge admission.
I got a nice turquoise necklace with a silver bear pendant that I wear often and get tons of compliments on.
This makes me want to go back and visit and take pictures again.

mike0421 · 10-07-2010, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by uggabugga

they charge admission now? i wonder when that started..

here's an old snapshot of my dad [on the left] and two friends at what then passed for a monument in 1956:

Wow, great picture Uggabugga, thanks for sharing.

uggabugga · 10-07-2010, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by mike0421

Wow, great picture Uggabugga, thanks for sharing.

glad you liked it.

with the lack of responses, i was beginning to wonder if this was a fart-in-church moment or something..

Mike Horrell · 10-07-2010, 11:53 AM

Things have been very quiet lately. I'm sorry I didn't say anything when you first posted
but I thought that was a pretty cool pic...